 | 1809 - 402 ページ
...high, He sought the storms ; hut, for a Calm noil, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast Iii- tit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hoars of rest? Punish... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 ページ
...waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide : * For the superintendence of his grandson's early education the old gentleman fixed upon a learned... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 ページ
...waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest; Punish... | |
 | 1821 - 800 ページ
...impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and ho* nour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours... | |
 | 1834 - 580 ページ
...hang on the simple thread of a phrenological subdivision ? May Dryden's couplet — " Great wit is sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide" — • be specially applied to Irishmen ? and must we be content to prove a pendant to the truism... | |
 | 1822 - 314 ページ
...extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 ページ
...Pleased with the danger, when the waves went •VOL. v. B He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 ページ
...extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm un6t, b )>x 8ow~ vݑg | 5 ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 ページ
...extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a ealm unfit, She, wretehed matron, fore'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling er ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 ページ
...returns home, he buys a seat in Parliament, and studies the constitution. — Mackenzie. CCCCXCVI. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish... | |
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He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age... 
